The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-02-10


urday, DIR. Snodgrass, after brief i'll
ness. He was buried Sunday with
Masonic honors. A special train was
run for the accommodation ofthe John
son City and Elizabethton Lodges and
q great many friends of the deceased
from both places took advantage of
the opportunity to attend the funeral.
Ued.-Mr. and Mrs. John Jones had
the misfortune to lose child last
Thursday night.
Prof. Proctor, U. S. Geoligist, from
Kentucky, arrived in the city Sunday
night with Gen. ]. T. Wilder, ard
went up to Roam Mountain Monday
morning. He will make geological
survey of all the minerals found south
of Appalachian system. Prof. Proctor
has done moro to bring the celebrated
Kentucky coal into notice than any
other man in the State and deserves
great credit
Mayor Dickinson left Tuesday for
Nashville with bill to be offered as
an amendment to the bill now before
the Legislature to extend the corpor-
ate limits of Johnson City. 1t was
unanimously decided at the meeting
last Monday afternoon that the cor
poration limits should be extended to
three-fourths of a mile from given
centre in every direction instead of
one mile as first proposed.
A careful parent in this city took
the precaution to hang in a conspicu-
Gus place in the parlor sign bearing
the inscription: Gentlemen will
please leave early" A stranger hap
pening to call at that house the other
night, took the old gentleman at his
word and left at 1915 a. m. The
sign was removed promptly next
morning and an alarm clock put in its
place with the alarm set for leaving
time.
Best five cent cigars in the country
at McFarland's Drug Store. Smoke
the justly celebrated Loves Glory,
Daniel Boone and Victor Hugo cigars
LINES TO JOHNSON CITY -
Don't sit and blow Be wise to-day
Quit building great things lin the air.
For while you're wasting time away
Thestate-line city's getting here.
Courier.
Sorry, Charles, but we can't take
your advice, We shall continue to
build great things" until we have five
100-ton furnace stacks "in the air.
while you keep yours on paper.
You may talk about your railroads. water
works and gas,
And fling at better towns a lot of dirty sass,
Ride on your street cars and have a good time
But ii makesno difference you're coming out
behind.
Stepping into Cargille & Hodges
art gallery this morning we were
shown among other things, a 14x17
portrait, in india ink and water colors,
of Mrs. Geo. w Hickey that had been
enlarged from an old card photograph
by these gentlemen. The work was
remarkably well executed, the differ
ent features and especially the eyes
were strikingly lifelike. These gen
tlemen are now prepared to enlarge
photographs to any size and solicit
correspondence from parties having
any Of this kind OF work to be done
They are reliable.
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An got &c trCriG libbcr.P
De tropic liijher lImFey?
| don't know WHAT ycu means:
But you can euro Your ague
by taking SMITHS BILE BEANS.
Two bits a bottle, don't pay morol
You'll get dem at de drugman's store.
The most economical and best remed,
for ague. Is cents, per bottle.
Some disorder of that "valn-glorious
product" under Charles hat has caus
ed him to become tightly again. His
admiring gaze has been turned Sc
long in the direction OF his own name
as it stands out in bold relief and biz
type on each Of the four corners Of tn,
Courier, that he imagines himself to b.
Sir Oracle and that when he ope's hi
lips no other dog must bark. If i
will aid the young man to recover W,
are willing to humor his within an,
obey his imperious command to "shu
up" Let the universe hold it
breath while he of the 1arge folks
gives his oyerrtowering intellect al
opportunity to scintillate.
I The Taylor Fansily,-We have seel
y, a copy of the picture of the "Taylo
Family" and must say it is much bet
ter than we expected to see, 1t j
] really a magnificent lithograpf
and besides being well executed, it j
M Ill.,